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Cruzan fisheries : a rapid assessment of the historical, social, cultural and economic processes that shaped coastal communities' dependence and engagement in fishing in the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

"This study contributes to the description of fishing communities in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands and an understanding of their levels of engagement and dependence on fishery resources. It discusses how homesteading and gentrification limited fishing communities' access to the shore, transforming them from placed-based communities to network-based communities. In addition, the manuscript describes how declining stocks, government regulations, user conflicts and habitat degradation are threatening the livelihoods of fishermen"--Executive summary, paragraph 1.

"This document lays out the strategic priorities for the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program's social science program over the next five years, 2010-2015. Priorities identified in this document will receive preference for funding and technical suppo...

"In 2007, an external program review recommended the CRCP refine its geographic and thematic foci, and shift resource allocations to local, placed based conservation and management, among other recommendations. A new CRCP program manager, Kacky Andre...

"This report focuses on the island, people and fisheries of St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands (USVI). In doing so it attempts to determine if the island, as a whole, can be considered a fishing community as defined by the Magnuson Stevens Fishe...

"The Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP) 2016-2021 Social Science Strategy builds on the previous (2010-2015) strategy. The new strategy document reviews recent outcomes from the previous social science work plan and then provides recommendations ...

This study examines the perceptions about the biological and socio-economic performance of the gill and trammel net buyback and ban in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The objective of the buyback was to assist fishermen transition to other gears whil...